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Jiangyou, 
China
251,202 people lived in Jiangyou in 2025. It is the 2318th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 415th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jiangyou grew
Where Jiangyou had 10 people in 1975, it had 6.8 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 206,473 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Jiangyou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jiangyou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Jiangyou; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jiangyou covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have fallen by 32%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Jiangyou in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2313 Tiaret Algeria251,576
- 2314 Vladimir Russia251,498
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
In China, 2025
- 2248 Jianhu259,681
- 2265 Dinghai District257,524
- 2315 Golmud251,353
- 2316 Shehong251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou251,202
- 2436 Xinchang240,747
- 2439 Fenghua District240,478
- 2582 Binhai227,533
- 2808 Wuxue211,544
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Jiangyou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Jiangyou publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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